by design | Sep 2, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
Partisan Democrats Even Oppose Efforts To End War In Ukraine By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com The Democrats are so partisan now and so eager to criticize President Trump on anything he does that they are even attacking him for entering into peace...
by design | Sep 2, 2025 | Columnist, Ferguson
Obsession To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead. Thomas Paine By Dr. Jim Ferguson Where do they find these corporate “marketeers?” I’m not talking about the old Disney Mouseketeers, who knew their...
by design | Sep 2, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Golf is not for prideful persons By Joe Rector In my 40s, I began playing golf. Prior to that time, I visited courses about three times. Those times were miserable for me. I could barely hit the ball and whiffed on more occasions than I care to admit. As I’ve admitted...
by design | Sep 2, 2025 | Columnist, Mattingly
‘I’m going with the best’ By Tom Mattingly Years after he called his last Tennessee Volunteers football game, Tennessee 41, Vanderbilt 14, on Dec. 2, 1967, George Mooney still remembered the good times. Mooney (Jan. 6, 1920-Oct. 13, 2011) was the lead announcer on the...
by design | Sep 2, 2025 | The Daily Focus
Tours of Local Food Buyers Coming to Appalachia September Tours Pair Food Marketers with Buyers COLUMBIA, Tenn. – Direct farm marketers and value-added agriculture entrepreneurs interested in learning more about selling products to wholesale buyers such as grocery...
by design | Sep 2, 2025 | Public Notice
FORECLOSURE NOTICES NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE WHEREAS, default has occurred in the performance of the covenants, terms, and conditions of a Deed of Trust Note dated 08/03/2006, and the Deed of Trust of even date securing the same, recorded 08/11/2006, in Instr:...
by design | Sep 1, 2025 | Archived Editions, Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Council vote on midway sale could be postponed By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com When the Knoxville City Council meets tonight, most of the attention was to be on the discussion and vote on selling part of Chilhowee Park to the Emerald Youth...
by design | Sep 1, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Pitiful Turnout For City Election What if they had an election and nobody came? That’s pretty much what happened during the Knoxville City Council elections during early voting. Only 5,284 people voted during early voting. ...
by design | Sep 1, 2025 | Stories In This Week's Focus:
Jayla Blue shatters Bearden’s all-time scoring record with hat trick against GPS By Ken Lay Jayla Blue recorded a hat trick to lead the Bearden High School girls soccer team to a 5-0 victory Thursday. But it wasn’t just the ordinary three-goal night for the Lady...
by design | Sep 1, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Unknown Long George S. Long of Louisiana By Ray Hill One of the most enduring of all political dynasties is that founded by Huey Pierce Long, Louisiana’s “Kingfish.” Even those who barely know anything about politics and history are oftentimes familiar with the...
